Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-05
WHOLE NO. 1852.
GOT 'EM AGAIN.

zone of the HoOdlums" Replies to Re
fiections upon the First Regiment.
EDS. RECORD UNION Your evening cor
temporary, or writer for it, has had ar
other attack OF bilousness," and in
erdeavor 10 recover has endeavered to
spew some of its vomit on the National
Guard in general and the First Artillery
Regiment in particular. In several labored
articles during the past week it has sought
to cast odium on the officers and men of
the regiment, designating them as hood
lums thieves and drunken sots: that they
cannot drill, keep step, etc. dd iib., and
the sole and only object they have in keep
ing up their organization is that they may
be enabled to so into camp for 4 week
every two or three years, for the purpose
OF having champagne suppers, etc, and
having hilarious" time generally. and
the poor Captains, it is asserted, are not fit
to drill school children.
l had imagined that Captains T. s. Hall,
II. Weinstock, Geo. w Stafford, John Cock.
Lieutenant Fred Birdsall, Lieutenant Geo.
Hlhell, OF Nevada City; Captain W. H.
CURSOR, of Woodland Colonel J. w.
Guthrie, Lieutenant Colonel L. H. Mckee
and hosts of officers and men in the regi-
ment were of different make-sober, indus
trious and good business men. | had not
supposed that they drilled week in and
week out, the year around, without fee or
reward, and gave their time at encamp-
ments also merely for the sake of the poor
grub and transportation furnished but in
order that they might perfect themselves
IN the use OF arms, and, as patriotic citizens
should, do their duty to the State. The
people of Sacramento, Woodland and Ne
vada City, where the companies of the reg
lment are stationed, and who are familiar
with the services rendered by the State
troops, will wonder they did not know the
true character of the officers above named
and of the men generally, with whom
they are pretty well acquainted,
and Will probably hesitate before CHASING
them as companions of thieves, hoodlums
anddrunken sots and naturally ask who this
" reliable" correspondent is who shame
fully hbels 400 men, and when they learn,
will say, All ! thought so ~ These
friends understand very well how much
has been saved the State by the National
Guard in suppressing riots, and that the
very fact that there is such force in exist
ence is a preventive of riotous demOnstra-
tions among the iawless elements which
congregate in large cities This is q matter
that all thinking men thoroughly under
stand and we apprebend that instead of
appropriating 100000 in aid of the Ma
tioDal Guard, as it did at the last session,
Congress will double the amount at its
next, and the force will go on in the even
tenor of lis way despite the snarls of
bilious " correspondent, who is probably
not fit associate for the lone private who
drank too much Santa Cruz water one
evening, and raised all this bile in our
contemporary.
The structures about drills. junkeung,
etc, are the veriest bosh. Those who are
familiar with the workings of the National
Guard know that it is impossible to attain
perfection in drill on account OF the con-
slant changes taking place. Well-drilled
men whose terms are served are GO
| ing out, and the companies must be re-
| cruited with new material
The First Artillery has for years been
| recognized as one of the best in the State
! in drill, discipline, and in the material of
which il is composed. 1t has never made
| practice of having receptions, as they are
termed, at lis encampments, and two years
! ago was indirectly complimented in the re-
| port OF the regular army officer IN his re-
| port Of the conduct of the camp. when he
| advised that these iunketings Ga not al
| lowed. The First Artillery was The only
| regiment in camp which did not give a re-
| ception in the sense implied. Al the regi-
mental headquarters lemonade could be
| hSN, ~ Dc oul6, kuOt sCLtDtdtlt lp4 D4l-
| lous people) and, perhaps, a little of
something stronger with an occasional
| cigar for visiting officers and friends of
the regiment, but not dime of tie States
money was used for this purpose, and the
| encampments of the regiment (the last not
| excepted have been as orderly as the best
friends of the regiment could wish, fact
which the numerous ladies who took psSt
in the camp can testify 20
| Such scurrilous remarks as INDUCED in
| through your conten porary, in speaking of
this regiment might mislead strangers. and
| create the impression that it was composed
| OF the very toughest element in the
community, if not contradicted. The friends
| OF the regiment are aware OF the Iirst-claSs
material of which it is composed, and most
people have sense enough to know. that in
a body of nearly 4G0 men. there are always
a few who may oyerstep the bounds of pro-
| prlety at outings like these encampInent.
| While the author of these attacks on the
| officers and men of the First Regiment
| charges them with being the very dress of
humanity, be lays special stress upon the
allegation that they are in the habit of get
ting drunk at their outings and making
| shows OF themselves. This is q queer
charge TO come from such a source and
would seem to imply that the author had
| never heard the adage that people who
| I'VE ID glass houses should not throw
stones" can only account for this base
libel upon the men Of the First Regiment
| on the supposition that the author, while
sleeping off the effects OF a seaside booze,
dreamed that grand drunk was geirg on
| in camp and he " twenty miles (or more)
| away Naturally enough this riled'
him. But did he imagine he WAS getting
even on the drunken sOjersh by making
| bowling wilderness Of downtown
| neighborhod the night of his return, and
| finally having TO be carted home in Q hack
Now, will say this: If l am not mis-
| taken as to thcau,horshipo OF the Bees libels
upon the National Guard land don think
there is much danger of my going aslTay
on that proposition), he Furnishes regularly
more of his fayorjte rot gut in one week,
on his native heath, than all the hood
lums Of the First Regiment have disposed
OF IN three years ct their encampments.
ONE OF THE HOOD UNs.
A life of sympathy and frieudliuesz. L
life that tries to make those around it
happier and better-this is the highest